Archive for June, 2009

Payam Akhavan: The West must stand by Iranian protesters
June 30, 2009, Comments Off on Payam Akhavan: The West must stand by Iranian protesters

The West must stand by Iranian protesters The Ottawa Citizen June 30, 2009 June 15, 2009, will be remembered as a turnin ...

International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
June 29, 2009, Comments Off on International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

(Reuters/Planet Ark) Member states of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) voted to locate their headquarte ...

President Obama & the Americas
June 29, 2009, Comments Off on President Obama & the Americas

Search ‘Latin America’ on www.wednesday-night.com The Eclipse of the Americas How the Trinidad Summit Marked ...

Statement by a group of Iranian bloggers
June 26, 2009, Comments Off on Statement by a group of Iranian bloggers

Statement by a group of Iranian bloggers about the Presidential elections and the subsequent events 1) We, a group of Ir ...

Wednesday Night #1425
June 24, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1425

Le Salon du mercredi soir #1425 , mercredi le 24 juin 2009  – la Fête nationale Yes, we DO recognize that this W ...

Rick Sindelar on Iran
June 24, 2009, Comments Off on Rick Sindelar on Iran

Protesters’ tenacity to decide the future in Iran By H. RICHARD SINDELAR (Houston Chronicle) The mullahs have miscalcu ...

Wednesday Night #1424
June 17, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1424

Update on Hungary Although the member nations of the European Union have benefited enormously from the elimination of ph ...

Tom Flanagan on Stephen Harper
June 15, 2009, Comments Off on Tom Flanagan on Stephen Harper

The way Mr. Flanagan sees it now, Stephen Harper is adrift in a vacuum of policy and principle, conniving only to retain ...

Jeff Rubin: Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization
June 15, 2009, 2 Comments

A peak at oil reserves (The Economist) ACCORDING to BP, an oil company, the world has enough oil reserves to meet demand ...

Thomas Friedman: Winds of Change?
June 14, 2009, Comments Off on Thomas Friedman: Winds of Change?

Twenty years ago, I wrote a book about the Middle East, and recently I was thinking of updating it with a new introducti ...